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The idea behind FireChat is simple. It's a chatting app. After registering with a name — no email address or other personal identifiers required — you're dropped into a fast-moving chatroom of "Everyone" using it in your country.

The Department of Justice has released new information detailing the process they claim led to the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged identity behind Dread Pirate Roberts, founder of the Silk Road marketplace.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc hit back at News Corp on Thursday for calling it a platform for piracy and an "unaccountable bureaucracy," in a point-by-point rebuttal that stressed the Internet search company's commitment to fighting online cri

The court noted even though Cisco developed the system for the purpose of tracking, identifying and facilitating the capture of Chinese religious minorities, Cisco would not be held liable because it didn't do enough in the US to facilitate abuses.

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When the Internet was still in its early stages and without such widespread adoption, most computers were used for local applications such as storing documents and databases, calculations for math's and sciences, and playing games. In this sense, com

Outernet is extremely excited to announce a content partnership with Open Source Ecology! We began broadcasting their Civilization Start Kit TODAY, which includes plans for a Compressed Earth Brick Press, Soil Pulverizer, Tractor, and Power Cube.

Fairly or not, bitcoin still has an image problem. For every VC who extols the innovative power of the digital currency, pop culture still sees it as a way for the paranoid cyber-libertarian to shop for black-tar heroin on the Silk Road.